People like to complain about having guilt laid on them all the time as part of growing up Catholic.  I don’t even see it, post Vatican II the emphasis changed a lot, but it probably did happen a lot more to our parent’s generation – eg you are always sinful, you need to confess all [...]

There’s a positive thinking example used to illustrate the fact that you have the power over your reactions to the events around you.  Roughly the story goes that you wake up in the morning and you really feel like weetbix.  You pour your weetbix, go to the fridge and ‘Oh noes!’, you are out of [...]

Ash has started playing soccer, and we noticed that neither we, nor 10 years of PE teachers, have ever taught her to run properly.  This is unsurprising, as nobody ever taught me to either.  I vaguely remember people saying ‘run on your toes’, but never actually taking the time to explain properly what that meant, [...]

I love that phones have cameras.  They may not take the greatest shots but they are always handy for something weird.

I mentioned an animation I was working on. It’s moving along well, I’m learning a lot – for example, it’s important to properly secure your set to the table if you don’t want random earthquakes in the scene. Lighting is also a killer, even though I’m inside with the blinds shut, scenes shot in [...]

About this time last year, the mighty HJ had to be let go. Too much rust, particularly in the chassis rails and such expensive places, not to mention odds and ends of mechanical work needing doing, adding up to $6k or more worth of work to end up with a car worth maybe $3k. [...]